{"id":521020,"date":"2026-04-09T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521020\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:42:08","slug":"were-having-to-turn-away-young-people-in-crisis-mental-health-charity-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521020\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re having to turn away young people in crisis,&#8217; mental health charity says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spokesperson for NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB said Eggtooth had been given notice the funding would come to an end. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A one-year extension was agreed to support a planned and smooth transition to other mainstream services, they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added there was a range of support available for young people from the NHS, alongside voluntary and community services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eggtooth says it has supported more than 900 young people experiencing mental health challenges in the last two years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It says it is seeing &#8220;rising demand&#8221; and &#8220;increasing levels of distress among young people&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Health and Social Care has been approached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spokesperson for NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB said Eggtooth had been given notice the funding would come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}